A/RES/73/205
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
11 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 84
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 20 December 2018
[on the report of the Sixth Committee (A/73/554)]
73/205.
Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection,
security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions
and representatives
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 1
Conscious of the need to develop and strengthen friendly relations and
cooperation among States,
Convinced that respect for the principles and rules of international law
governing diplomatic and consular relations, including those derived from the
principle of sovereign equality of States, is a basic prerequisite for the normal conduct
of relations among States and for the fulfilment of the purposes and principles of the
Charter of the United Nations,
Alarmed by the new and recurring acts of violence against diplomatic and
consular representatives, as well as against representatives to international
intergovernmental organizations and officials of such organizations, which endanger
or take innocent lives and seriously impede the normal work of such representatives
and officials,
Expressing sympathy for the victims of such illegal acts,
Recalling that, to the extent provided by the relevant rules of international law,
premises of diplomatic missions, consular premises and premises of permanent
missions with diplomatic status to international intergovernmental organizations, as
well as private residences of relevant members of diplomatic missions and representatives
to international intergovernmental organizations, shall be inviolable and that, to the
extent consistent with the relevant rules of international law, agents of the receiving
State shall not enter them, except with the consent of the sending State,
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